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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Herbert Simon"”.
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Public administration in a time of fractured meaning: beyond the legacy of Herbert Simon
… for a community of meaning). It is argued that Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior appropriates the discourse of rationalism manifested in the progressive movement but that Simon's model of administration lacked the original symbol that legitimized the field--the communitarian ideal of …
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Economia comportamental e a decisão do consumidor: a contribuição da(s) racionalidade(s)
… consumidor baseado na racionalidade limitada de Herbert Simon implícita na economia comportamental ou psicologia econômica, contrariando a teoria neoclássica do consumidor da escolha racional e do homo economicus. O estudo objetivou contribuir para identificar esses outros elementos …
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Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration
… and nominal pragmatisms of Charles A. Beard and Herbert Simon, and the implicit pragmatism of Dwight Waldo. The discovery of this heritage of “hidden” pragmatism Carries with it significant implications for the way we think about public administration as a field of study. Most importantly, it …
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The sponsor strikes back: Interacting with a budget-maximizing bureau
… economics, prominently featuring selections from Herbert Simon, Anthony Downs, William Niskanen, Migue and Belanger, and Breton and Wintrobe. The second part assumes a bureau that maximizes its budget, a la Niskanen, or its slack resources, a la Migue and Belanger, and explores, through …
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Satisficing Applied To Simulated Soccer
<p>Satisficing was introduced by the economist Herbert Simon to allow for decisions that are "good enough" when there are insufficient computational resources and knowledge to obtain the optimal outcome. Autonomous multi-agent systems often require such decision making because of the complexity and …
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Forsetakosningar á Íslandi 2016. Hvernig má skýra það að Davíð Oddsson taldi sig eiga erindi í forsetaframboð árið 2016?
… hér eru í fyrsta lagi „fjötruð skynsemi“ eftir Herbert Simon, í öðru lagi rannsóknir Thaler og Sunstein um hvernig má móta skoðanir og vilja annarra, í þriðja lagi rannsóknir Jones og Baumgartner á stjórnmálum athyglinnar og að lokum skrif Knill og Tosun um það hvernig stjórnvöld velja …
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Prospects for a cognitive science of science
… four prominent cognitive scientists of science: Herbert Simon, Paul Thagard, Ronald Giere, and Paul Churchland. All share the same goals of naturalizing philosophy of science by using the empirical resources of cognitive science. I show that all four accounts ignore the important social nature of …
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Diagramming Prior Knowledge in the Classroom: A Case Study
… technique used in the classroom. Jill Larkin and Herbert Simon described the computational advantages of diagrams over text when used to communicate information in their 1987 article entitled 'Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words.' This case study describes a novel abstract …
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Modeling Optimal Information Acquisition Time Driven by Event Importance for Decision Making: Integrating Gödel's Incompleteness, Turing's Computability, and Simon's Bounded Rationality
… Turing και την Περιορισμένη Ορθολογικότητα του Herbert Simon, η έρευνα αυτή προτείνει ένα νέο μοντέλο για την κατανόηση της δυναμικής της απόκτησης πληροφορίας σε σχέση με τη λήψη αποφάσεων που καθοδηγείται από γεγονότα. Η Μη Πληρότητα του Gödel αναδεικνύει τους εγγενείς περιορισμούς στην …
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Methodological Foundations for Bounded Rationality as a Primary Framework
… from the maximization of any utility function. Herbert Simon sought to deal with this by positing that individuals do not maximize, but rather "satisfice." This was a radical departure from the traditional economic framework, and one that still has not been adequately formalized. But Simon's …
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Use-value taxation in Virginia: administrative practices and problems
… based on the theory of William Niskanen and Herbert Simon. In meeting with the second objective, a survey was conducted with the cooperation of the Commissioners of the Revenue, Real Estate Assessors, and Treasurers of the localities having use-value taxation in effect for 1976. The third …
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An empirical analysis and stochastic modelling of aggregate demand behaviour in a spare parts inventory system
… after work and discussions of Uji Ijiri and Herbert Simon (1977); and to a lesser extent we utilised simulation for validation and verification of the derived models. From the proven log normality of demand volumes and usage values we have demonstrated that a number of related key inventory …
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Mind your mind: social influence on individual decision-making.
… recommendations, comments, and advice. Herbert Simon called this human tendency to rely on socially obtained information (SOI) for decision-making as ‘docility’. There are occasions when humans tend to avoid using and interacting with the resources of the environment they are part of, …
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The behavioral economics of foreign exchange markets - a psychological view on human expectation formation in foreign exchange markets
… of bounded rationality first introduced by Herbert Simon [1955]. In the centre of the concept of bounded rationality is a psychological analysis of the actual human judgment and decision behavior. In Chapter IV, we discuss the concept of bounded rationality in detail and illustrate important …